“lolcats”
In the Internet’s fastest-working meme labs — places like 4chan, fark, Something Awful, YTMND, etc — a phenomenon has grown up of adding captions to (typically) animal pictures, often featuring Vazquez-esque tortured syntax and spelling for added humor value (”for the lolz,” one might say). The archetypal image of this type is certainly the O RLY? owl.
But the greatest consumer of captioned animal images appears to be Caturday — at least, this is what they tell me, as I have no plan of going anywhere near the place — which calls for captioned cat images, and so I believe it is fair to adopt the world “lolcat” to describe the class. It is the tag that the new-as-of-this-year blog I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER? has come to apply, I think most fittingly. What a great word! It is officially my Favorite New Word of 2007 So Far.
Also, kitten.
cheezburger:
we agrees! lolcats ftw.
9 February 2007, 11:58 amBentatsu:
Y Kant lolcats spel?
12 February 2007, 6:05 pmColin:
Is it not remarkable that lolcats types at all?
13 February 2007, 10:12 am